Improvement in detonating compounds



59313:? D. SGI -IUQLEY AND WILLIATM {l PENESYLVANI 3i.

in? in nmnnmsna SGEUULEL BEADIBUGIQil F llllllll Speciliwtiun forming part of Letters Patent No. fiffi fii'il dated Jn'nn 20, 1876; applim; sionfiled January 11, 12576.

To (all whom it may uonc'ern:

Be it known that we, JOHN D. SQHOQLEY Emil WILLXAM U. SCIIOULEY, of Brzulilocll s fl illl, Allegheny county, Pennsylvzuiin, nave invented an lniprovell Oompnnntl for Bets- 5 ups; andws hereby declare ll'm'r fnnowing to be a full and correct lcscriplinn 0t ihe same.

The; object of 0m" invention is toprollnuc n sonlpnsition for detonating purposes which be used. as an explosive compound in tornadoes, especially railroadlurpedces for sig- Il7lln;'lllkl all other explosive caps using an fuln'iinnite explolled h; friction; and it consists in cemgmumling three parts of the chlorate 'nf pnmsn, will (lElQ- purl, sulphur or lzw-sul1'al1nr, and 02m part broken glass. These in gradients are inclosed in n case of any suitable material, pref raibl uf glnss, as llnsuribed in our patentfcr milmml cletonating-tu pndo, granted September 29, 18%; but it may be of any substance suitablefor such purpnses.

The broken glnss, from iis slnn'p irregularities, is adapted l0 ignite the combustible n1- i'iell to meal: the will insure the exli'ne name time the glass npgradients of 0m neinpomnl and plosion, While at pears in immense fiuinponinl.

We d0 net nnnfine ourselves in the zn-liit 'nry pz'trpnri-isklin lm-zrnln given, in! the may newnlitiuns without departing l'rnin the substance of an? invention.

Having fully described, our invnntion What we claim, and. to nature by Let-turn Pan emf, isv The cninnusitien for {L (lawnMing-powder, snlistmilinlly as herein nesmflnezl, composed of (illlOIilCi of potnsln slime LHMCS; sulphur, nne part; and broken glass, one part.

The above specification of out said invention signed and witnessed ab Brandon-laborongh this 2251 day of September, A. D. 18%.

JOHN D. SQHUOLEY. ll-illilliilfll G. SGHUOLEY.

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